Computer accompaniment is now a well-established field of study, but nearly all work in this area assumes a Western classical music tradition in which timing is considered a flexible framework that performers manipulate for expression. This has important implications for the music, accompaniment, and performance style, and therefore the fundamental design of automatic accompaniment systems. Pop...

In the world of computer music, interactivity is becoming an increasingly active area of interest. In their roadmap for future computer music research, Serra et. al. [5] emphasise interactivity and controllability as an area that the next generation of research needs to focus on, and there has arguably been a shift within the computer music community from the search for new sound synthesis tech...

The therapeutic effects of playing music are being recognized increasingly in the field of rehabilitation medicine. People with physical disabilities, however, often do not have the motor dexterity needed to play an instrument. We developed a camera-based human-computer interface called “Music Maker” to provide such people with a means to make music by performing therapeutic exercises. Music Ma...

Computer Music Journal Spectral Tools for Dynamic Tonality and Audio Morphing William Sethares [email protected], Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI 53706 USA. Andrew Milne [email protected], Department of Music, P.O. Box 35, 40014, University of Jyväskylä, Finland. Stefan Tiedje [email protected], CCMIX, Paris, Fran...